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August
Title:Another Time
This image was prepared in CS5 using 5 bracketed files exposed on a tripod. Everything opened in ACR and I promptly clicked on "Select All" and "Open" ignoring the sliders knowing the conversion from Raw would be handled by the program automatically. Using File>Automate>Merge To HDR Pro I was able to fade the halos quite easily using "Detail" and the top two sliders. This is an excellent feature. There was another truck behind the main subject and some telephone wires that were eliminated using the new Edit>Fill>Content-Aware feature. Worked great on the wires but the truck in the background needed a little extra standard cloning to finish up. I completed the project with some tonal adjustments using Nik and Topaz. I found the new HDR processor to be very good and, depending on the image, gives Photomatix Pro a run for the money at least for the time being (rumor has it a new version will be released in the near future). Hope everyone gets a chance to try these new features and shares their experience.
Comments
| Maria Korab-Laskowska |
Excellent image, well composed,clean and with a style. Thank you for sharing processing details.
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| Tom Icklan (postcomment space) |
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| Mark Greenberg |
Super image!! I love old vehicles and this photo evokes all the nostalgia associated with vintage vehicles and past years. I wonder who used it, what it was for and why was it abandoned. I have used Photomatix and not tried the new CS5 HDR features but can appreciate it's features. Please share where you found the truck and did you find the door open? Any creatures inside?
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| Eduardo Atienzar Martinez |
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| Kieu-Hanh Vu |
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| Linda Phelps |
I love the results of the processing you did on this truck. The colors are wonderful. I like the dark sky which works nicely to set off the orange red in the truck. The open truck door seems to invite me to take a drive in a wonderland created by crayon drawings. Great composition!
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| Rawligh Sybrant |
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Tom Icklan
biography
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I got serious about photography in the mid-sixties but, after learning the fundamentals and setting up a darkroom I abandoned the hobby due to career, family and educational pursuits.
The spark was rekindled in 1993 while hiking through a nature preserve in Florida. Many Nikon's later I am now fascinated by the art of digital imaging. Using one of three Mac's and a Nikon LS 4000 slide scanner I now spend countless hours in my light room. My digital cameras also provide instant feedback and high quality images which are easily arranged in slide shows with music. An LCD projector and an Apple Powerbook enable me to entertain and share some of the things I have learned with camera club audiences in New Jersey, New York and Florida.
Prior to retiring from a career in community college teaching (mathematics) I was president of the Ocean County Camera Club in New Jersey. I now co-direct with my wife Elaine, Region 14 of PSA. Our son and daughter, Ken and Karen reside in Atlanta and have an interest in photography as well.
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